Where should libiberty.a be installed?

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 3 14:30:00 GMT 2008


>>> libiberty.a ends up in /usr/lib (and the multilib in /usr/lib/ppc64)
>>
>>> This appears to be ignoring the 
>>> "--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs" flags (which is honored 
>>> AFAICT by all the other libs).
>>
>> libiberty is not a runtime library.
>
> I appreciate this, however, libiberty *is* installed into the user's 
> DESTDIR.

Yes.  However, it (the installed libiberty.a) isn't used by any of the
installed GCC binaries, so it doesn't cause problems there.

OTOH, like I said, why is it installed at all by default?  Its header
files are not, so this would seem pretty useless.


Segher



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